Donna Tibby, BACP

Donna Tibby is a BACP counsellor who offers therapy for adults aged 18 and over. She greets each person with straightforward compassion and aims to help them make sense of difficult feelings. Donna focuses on reducing overwhelming anxiety, low mood, stress and relationship strain so people can move forward with more ease.

She uses a blend of therapeutic approaches to build a tailored plan for each person. Sessions can address sudden life events, long-running struggles, or feelings that are hard to name. Donna talks through what matters to the client now, helping them test unhelpful beliefs such as "I am an anxious person" and find alternative ways of relating to themselves.

Her style is gentle and practical. She helps people spot patterns, try new ways of coping, and develop clearer self-understanding. Therapy may include short-term, solution-focused work or longer-term exploration depending on need.

Donna lists several areas she commonly supports, including stress, grief, self-esteem, addictions, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and aging and geriatric issues. She also works with concerns such as attachment issues, body image, career difficulties, and parenting stress. These are offered within the personalised framework she creates with each person.

She practices in the United Kingdom and follows the ethical framework of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, abbreviated as BACP. The usual next step is to use the site Start Therapy process to match with her and arrange sessions according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters to you and helps you take steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It is useful for ongoing anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people test out different responses to reduce distress and improve routines. It often helps with anxiety, sleeping problems and unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of relating to others and to yourself, which can be useful for intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and relationship patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Donna will discuss goals and preferences and help you pick or combine methods that suit your situation. That collaboration means the plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not detailed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in during a work break. It can also mean using fewer visual demands when bandwidth is limited or choosing a session length that suits a busy schedule. A registered or accredited professional will help you decide what will work best for your needs.